what will happen in reguards to our old keys for monty? will they stay active for this new game or should w scrap thoughs keys all together or are they still going to be active for the toomb hunter games when you finnaly are able to do them. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2008 12:59 AM Subject: [Audyssey] My responce to Michael Feir.
> Hi Michael, > I have read your email and find myself for the most part agreeing with > you about work ethics, sticking things through to the end, and trying to > follow through with promises made. It was both my promises as well as > the fact I took pre-orders in December why I have changed my mind and > have decided to begin work on a new side-scroller with a treasure > hunting and archeology type theme to replace Montezuma's Revenge. > In your email it is quite clear you are disappointed about the fact > Montezuma's Revenge was canceled. I also recognize your desire to have a > side-scroller as close to the original Montezuma's Revenge idea as > possible. how ever, as you know I was recently asked to take the > Montezuma's Return game down do to copyright issues and to cease and > desist from producing that type of game. Rather than argue with the > copyright holder's demands I agreed to meet all of their terms. If it > hadn't been for that major set back the game would probably be nearly > finished by now. > I certainly can not promise you a Montezuma's Revenge game, but perhaps > I can create a side-scroller of equal value that will be satisfactory to > you and others that were so hoping for Montezuma's Revenge/Montezuma's > Return. About the best I can do is try and deliver another high quality > side-scroller with action, adventure, and of course treasure hunting. I > honestly don't know if you will like it or not, but all I can do is try. > One of the ideas I am considering for the new side-scroller is changing > the location of the game to ancient Egypt. One of the reasons for the > change to Egypt is I have always liked he Egyptian type enemies like > bats, mummies, snakes, scorpions, crocodiles, etc that are popular in > games about Egypt. The gods and goddesses of Egypt make very cool > enemies or bosses. > Another very good reason to think about Egypt is in more contemporary > times archeologist's have discovered the Egyptian jewelers had access to > some kind of low voltage electric power in order to create electroplated > jewelry. Like the Babylonians the ancient Egyptians may have used dry > cell type badderies filled with fruit juices and a copper rod to produce > electric current. The reason this is important is in the Montezuma's > Revenge games there are electric fields that would have been beyond the > Aztec's technical means, but the ancient Egyptians may have had the > technological ability to use dry cell batteries to power some kind of > electric trip wire as a trap. > Then, of course there is the entire science fiction and pop culture > things to think about. Many authors have inferred that the ancient > Egyptians are descendants of an alien race or people from Atlantice. The > movie Star Gate made an interesting theory that Egypt had been > controlled by an alien race that had gated to Earth thousands of years > in the passed and then the gate was closed on our end and was berried > until it was rediscovered in modern times. Then, there was that > television series where the family was visiting the pyramids of Egypt > and then got transported to another world through some interplanetary > gate. The movies Mummy and Mummy Returns has certainly turned your > classic Mummy creature into a cool and awesome enemy to fight. What I am > saying these are the kinds of things I would like to hope to explore in > my new game if I can without reprisal. > About the only thing the new side-scroller will have in common with > Montezuma's Revenge is you will still be gathering jewels, gold coins, > climbing ropes, avoiding fire pits, but the rest of the game is bound to > change and take a different direction as i create it. As the game's soul > developer I do feel I have the right at least to come up with a good > story line and create whatever monsters and characters will fill the > game world. I don't feel I should be bound to a game like Montezuma's > Revenge now that I have been asked specifically by Utopia not to do so. > In short I am truly sorry I was unable to deliver on Montezuma's > Revenge. However, now that I have agreed with Utopia to cease and desist > on that title I have to come up with something new. At first I had hoped > a 3D FPS game would satisfy you and others. Apparently that idea failed. > So I am back to square one, thinking of a new game, that is a > side-scroller. Unfortunately, I can not deliver the side-scroller game > you ordered, but maybe I can deliver a side-scroller you can except as a > substitution. > Thanks. > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the > list, > please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.21.8/1338 - Release Date: > 21/03/2008 17:52 > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. 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